by Susan | Jan 29, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history, Uncategorized
January 29, 1996 Three Ploughshares activists, Lotta Kronlid, Andrea Needham and Joanna Wilson, caused millions in damage and were arrested in Warton, Lancashire, England, for disarming a British Aerospace F-16 fighter jet destined to be sold to Indonesia for use in...
by Susan | Jan 19, 2015 | peacemaker birthdays, Uncategorized
January 18, 1882 A.A. Milne “You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.” January 21, 1561 Francis Bacon “Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s...
by Susan | Jan 8, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history, Uncategorized
January 8, 1918 President Woodrow Wilson delivered his Fourteen Points speech to Congress, articulating the ideas that would form the backbone of American foreign policy as the nation inched toward superpower status in the early 20th century. Wilson advocated equal...
by Susan | Dec 31, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history, Uncategorized
December 31, 1970 The U.S. Congress repealed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, which in 1964 authorized an increase in U.S. military involvement in Vietnam as a response to a later to be revealed as fictitious attack on U.S. naval forces patrolling close to the North...
by Susan | Nov 19, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history, Uncategorized
November 19, 1915 Joe Hill, a labor organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and framed for murder, was killed by firing squad in the courtyard of the Utah State Penitentiary in Salt Lake City. His final words were “Don’t waste any time in...
by Susan | Nov 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
